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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
onsists of a political disquisition on the existing dangers to the Union; on the horrors of civil war and the best means of averting so great a calamity; and also on the course which their author had resolved to pursue, as a citizen, in the approaching Presidential election. These were themes entirely foreign to a military report, and equally foreign from the official duties of the Commanding General. Furthermore, the Views were published to the world by the General himself, on the 18th January, 1861, in the National Intelligencer, and this without the consent or even previous knowledge of the President.This was done at a critical moment in our history, when the cotton States were seceding one after the other. The reason assigned by him for this strange violation of official confidence toward the President, was the necessity for the correction of misapprehensions which had got abroad, both in the public prints and in public speeches, in relation to the Views. The General commen
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Appendix (search)
Appendix General Scott's views of the 29th and 30th of October, 1860, published by his authority in the National Intelligenoer of the 18th of January, 1861. Views suggested by the imminent danger (October 29, 1860) of a disruption of the Union by the Secession of one or more of the Southern States. To save time the right of secession may be conceded, and instantly balanced by the correlative right, on the part of the Federal Government, against an interior State or States, to reestablish by force, if necessary, its former continuity of territory—Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy, last chapter. But break this glorious Union by whatever line or lines that political madness may contrive, and there would be no hope of reuniting the fragments except by the laceration and despotism of the sword. To effect such result the intestine wars of our Mexican neighbors would, in comparison with ours, sink into mere child's play. A smaller evil would be to allow the fr